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- From: gamiddle@math.uwaterloo.ca (Guy Middleton)
- Subject: Re: difference between quarterstaff and jo?
- Message-ID: <C183n4.8Mz@math.uwaterloo.ca>
- Organization: University of Waterloo Software Liberation Army
- References: <C1697x.35r@apollo.hp.com> <1993Jan21.004613.22288@ida.liu.se> <1993Jan21.162043.6032@cs.brown.edu>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 21:28:15 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan21.162043.6032@cs.brown.edu> tac@cs.brown.edu (Ted A. Camus) writes:
- > d90eridy@odalix.ida.liu.se (Erik Dyrelius) writes:
- > >stave@apollo.hp.com (Joel H. Stave) writes:
- > >
- > >>A quarterstaff is typically about 6 feet long whereas a jo is
- > >>about 4.5 feet long.
- > >
- > >I just measures my jo and it is only 50"=4.2 feet. I think (if I remember
- > >correctly) that the idea was that it should be a bit longer than the
- > >katana which it was designed to be used against and since a bokto (bokken)
- > >is about 40" that fits. (I havent got a katana to compare with)
- >
- > Your "jo" is the one used in traditional jodo, 50.25" long, and
- > your explanation of why seems perfectly reasonable - longer than the
- > katana, but otherwise as short (and therefore as light) as possible.
- >
- > Joel's "jo" is the one used in Aikido, and is (most often) 54" long.
- > (The rule is that it should just fit under your armpit.)
-
- And the jo I was originally asking about (our "daijo") is 5'6" long.
- We also have a shorter "shojo", at 4'0". I don't know why they are those
- particular lengths.
-
- -Guy Middleton, University of Waterloo gamiddleton@math.waterloo.edu
- (+1 519 885 1211 x3472) gamiddleton@math.uwaterloo.ca
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